Which DUAL Licence should I choose.

[Russell McOrmond]

On Mon, Aug 8, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Tzeng, Nigel H. <Nigel.Tzeng at jhuapl.edu> wrote:
> I would disagree with your assertion that nearly all software is source
> available

  While the source has been lost in some cases, it is nearly always a
question of under what licensing/contractual terms source code is
available to people beyond its author.

  I didn't say "available to you and me", meaning that both of us
would be willing to be bound by that specific contract -- that is an
entirely separate conversation.  I'm just saying that source code
being available to a wide variety of people other than the author
shouldn't be considered special.

> and presumably that you think that source available under
> non-commercial terms has no merit.  Perhaps because I'm in a more academic
> environment that I view this differently.  As we are a non-profit lab that
> does research there's more code out there for us to leverage than for most
> corporate developers.

  You may also be aware that whether "academic" environments are
non-commercial is an ongoing legal and political discussion.

  As educational institutions request royalties on the outputs of the
work within institutions, more people are questioning the
justifications for royalty-free inputs.  This not only questions
whether your academic work qualifies as NC for the purposes of an NC
license agreement, but also whether related work should be eligible
for educations exceptions to copyright/etc.   I am actively involved
in the copyright reform process here in Canada, and there are many
people (myself included) who question institutional exceptions to
Copyright.
http://billc32.ca/faq#education

> You might note that the NC clause doesn't cause much conceptual confusion
> in the CC world.

  Others have already commented on this.  There is a wide set of
incompatible interpretations of what NC really means.

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